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Romney suffers fresh blow in second day of fallout from leaked video

Mitt Romney
refused to apologise on Tuesday for describing 47% of Americans as
government-dependent "victims" in a covertly recorded video that has
thrown his presidential campaign into disarray.
In an attempt to
save his campaign from ruin, Romney went on the Republican-friendly Fox
News network just as the rightwing Drudge Report published excerpts from
a 1998 tape showing Barack Obama favouring "redistribution".

The
apparently co-ordinated attempt to stem the crisis from the video,
published on the Mother Jones website, followed a stumbling press
conference on Monday night in which Romney tried to defend comments made at a fundraiser in Florida.